prerequisites - system updated at least to testing (viewtopic.php?f=201&t=123323 may be useful);- good and recent backup (all went very good here, otherwise i wouldn't be writing this post but this procedure might react differently in your systems)

getting kde 4.9.5(kde 4.9.5 is not at debian proper at the moment; is at http://qt-kde.debian.net/)(for simplicity here and to be inline with the instructions at qt-kde.debian i'm going to use aptitude)

Cinnamon 32bit (LMDE) on the netbook after desktop startup between 127 and 142MB of the 997MB that are left of the 1GB RAM. The 64bit version is between 270 and 310MB of 3GB RAM available on my laptop after desktop startup if i remember correct. I will look into it tomorrow and let you know the exact numbers from both machines.

I find it kinda strange that Cinnamon comes in about 700MB on your machine but then again i don't know the specs of it.

KDE4 has been a favorite DE of mine a while back and always liked it next to Xfce, Gnome and Cinnamon.

Nice tutorial by the way from what i've seen, must look into it some more later on.

in a different system (highly customised this time) all(most) everything went well rebooting from the update and kwin was crashing all the time (like twice a second)turns out that was bespin's fault (my self-compiled bespin style was not compatible with 4.10)grabbing the newest version from experimental solved the issue immediately